Automation and the Future of Work
by Aaron Benanav
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"In Automation and the Future of Work, Aaron Benanav uncovers the structural economic trends that will shape our working lives far into the future. What social movements, he asks, are required to propel us into post-scarcity, if technological innovation alone can't deliver it? In response to calls for a universal basic income that would maintain a growing army of redundant workers, he offers a counter-proposal"--Tags
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Aaron Benanav is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University. He has written for the Guardian, the Nation and New Left Review.
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- [A]utomation theorists have tried to push through the catastrophe with a vision of an emancipated future, one in which humanity advances to the next stage in our history—whatever we might take that to mean—and technology ... (show all)helps to free us all to discover and follow our passions.
What the economists' accounts fail to register in their explanations of deindustrialization is also what is missing from the automation theorists' accounts. The truth is that rates of output growth in manufacturing have tende... (show all)d to decline, not only in this or that country, but worldwide.
[T]he major destroyer of livelihoods in the twentieth century was not “silicon capitalism” but nitrogen capitalism.
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